Titoli in Saggi

With a foreword by Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series – but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer’s research and animal rights.

Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross country...

"A master of both distilled insight and utter nonsense" (The Believer), Ian Frazier is one of the most gifted chroniclers of contemporary America. Hogs Wild assembles a decade's worth of his finest essays and reportage, and demonstrates the irrepressible passions and artful digressions that...

Professor of Classics Victor Davis Hanson contemplates the continuity of generations in "Natural Links in a Long Chain of Being", his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown...

Psychologist Debbie Hall values the simple act of "being there" as a form of connection in "The Power of Presence," her contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought...

Ted Gup reflects on the value of confusion in "In Praise of the 'Wobblies'", his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought that begins with the series title. The...

Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features 80 Americans—from the famous to the unknown—completing the thought that begins with the book's title. The pieces that make up the program compel listeners to re-think not only what and how they have arrived at their own...

In this essay originally aired in the 1950s, Former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas encourages a return to the faith of his father's generation in "My Father’s Evening Star"*, his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that...

Animal expert Temple Grandin describes the benefits of the concrete thinking that accompanies her autism, in "Seeing in Beautiful, Precise Pictures," her contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to...

Professor of psychiatry Kay Redfield Jamison describes the power of intense emotions and temperaments in "The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges", her contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous...

In this essay originally aired in the 1950s, baseball legend Jackie Robinson reflects on fighting imperfection to create a better world in "Free Minds and Hearts at Work", his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans...

In her contribution to NPR's This I Believe series, novelist Isabelle Allende reflects on how her daughter's life--and death--taught her that "In Giving I Connect With Others". This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing...

"One of the funniest writers in America." That’s what The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen—and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable. With her eagle eye for the absurd and...

أنا هنا معك قارئي العزيز على صفحات هذا الكتاب، أريد أن أتكلم، أحكي، أبوح، أفضفض أريدك أن تراني وأن تعرفني جيدًا؛ لأنني سأحاول أن أكون "أنا" بلا تزويق ولا تنميق .. أود أن أوطد علاقتي بك، أرى نفسي في مرآتك، أحس بصدى حكاياتي في تعبيراتك، تعليقاتك تفاعلك، تأثرك، حماسك أو غضبك كل هذا يجعلني أشعر بحالة عالية من السعادة والتوازن النفسي.. فأنت الذي تدفعني للكتابة، تشحن بطارياتي وتدعوني إلى فنجان من القهوة نفكر معًا من خلاله في فكرة تشغل بالي.

In this luminous essay, Thoreau calls us to reconsider how we view the past: not as a rigid ledger of facts, but as a shifting landscape of light and shadow. He asks us to read history “as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints…than by its groundwork and composition.”

Published seven years after the first instalment, The Common Reader: Second Series explores the works of Thomas Hardy, Laurence Stern and George Eliot, elegantly dissecting the art of the biography and the very nature of reading itself. Again Woolf speaks from the perspective of the everyday reader, urging for an intuitive and curious approach to literature – one which allows for freedom and experimentation as opposed to academic rigour.

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection. A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral...

Cet essai chante la vie, la nature, l’amour. Olivier Dodane se sert des mots pour soulager les maux, les siens dû à un cancer, ceux de son ami de toujours, un glacier qui souffre du réchauffement climatique, de la nature qui l’entoure et qui révèle nos obsessions humaines. Cet ovni littéraire entre essai et poésie emmène le lecteur hors des sentiers battus pour mieux approcher nos âmes en délicatesse. Avec pudeur aussi, comme si près des cimes, la poésie permettait de mieux exprimer la beauté de la vie...de la ressentir avec plus de vigueur encore.

Five Women. A Crumbling City. A Daring Flight to Freedom. August 2021. The fall of Kabul. Twenty years after they were defeated, the Taliban storms Afghanistan's capital, claiming every piece of land they pass and plunging the city into chaos. For Anjali and four other women, who were all from...

Eine einzigartige Sammlung seiner besten Texte zu Literatur, Malerei, Fotografie – und der unerklärlichen Magie des Lebens. Es geht um Faust und den Teufel, um skandinavische Malerei und den Tod, russische Tankstellen und die amerikanische Prairie: Das Essayistische ist eine treibende Kraft in Karl Ove Knausgårds schriftstellerischem Werk, seine preisgekrönten Romane sind undenkbar ohne essayistische Einschübe, in der sich die großen Fragen zur menschlichen Existenz mit dem alltäglichen Leben seiner Protagonisten verbinden.